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From Faith Complex, a series of Georgetown’s Program on Jewish Civilization:
On May 2, 2011, Navy SEALS cornered and killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, nearly ten years after the so-called War on Terror was first declared. Bin Laden’s death leaves unanswered questions such as: Who will inherit al-Qaeda’s leadership? What is the future of the …

Secretary Clinton’s Remarks on Women, Peace, and Security
Address

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

December 19, 2011
Thank you.  Well, it is wonderful to be back at Georgetown to give all of the students an excuse not to keep studying for their last finals.  (Laughter.)  That’s what accounts for the enthusiastic response here in Gaston Hall.
But thank you so …

I just learned today that my old friend, Professor David J. Bederman, died on December 4. David was a brilliant and prolific scholar of international law at Emory University Law School. We first met over a quarter of a Century ago, when we were both students at the University of Virginia. David was a great person– a world-renowned scholar, a …

The New York Times reports:
Canada said on Monday that it would withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, the 1997 treaty to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Under that accord, major industrialized nations agreed to meet targets for reducing emissions, but mandates were not imposed on developing countries like Brazil, China, India and South Africa. The United States never ratified the …

From the ICC website:

Today the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, requested Pre-Trial Chamber I to issue an arrest warrant against the current Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur from August 2003 to March 2004.
The evidence allowed the Office of the Prosecutor to …

In case you missed this, the Taipei Times reports the latest effort by China to reiterate its claim to the South China Sea:
An op-ed in the Chinese-language editions of People’s Daily and Global Times says there are no international waters in the South China Sea and that China should act with strength to repel US interference in …

TBD reports:
Holocaust survivors will urge a House committee to pass a bill that would allow survivors to pursue legal action against the French rail company responsible for transporting tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners to Nazi death camps.
“What the French did during the war was excessively criminal,” said Holocaust survivor Leo Bretholz.
In 1942, Bretholz was …

Haysel Hernandez-Holzhsu, (MSFS ‘13) writes:
Georgetown’s Generations for Peace Fellows shared the experiences of their summer research during a brown bag lunch with Master of Science in Foreign Service staff, students and practitioners in the field on October 19. Under the guidance of Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr. Sarah Hillyer, Sarah Moran (MSFS ’12), Meeghan Zahorsky (MA in …